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I believe tlie endosmosis process takes place ; as to the development of the 

 larva the first process is the completion of the silk glands, then the main canal 

 seems to be formed more distinctly, the anal passage never being opened until 

 the larva is fully filled, if I may so term it, or the growth of the larva accom- 

 plished, when the spinnerets come into use, and the larva having discharged a 

 small deposit in one corner of the wax cell (which black or brown substance 

 may be seen in cells newly occupied for breeding), the spinning from the 

 foundation commences, and finally the larva, finishing the silken respirator at 

 the top, is found with its head upwards, and in due time gnawing its way out at 

 the top, emerges either as a drone or worker from the confined cells, whilst the 

 occupants of the large cells, with the larger supply of jelly and a more rapid 

 absorption of sugar and water or honey and water, emerge as the perfect 

 queens. When the bees raise ' fertile workers,' these never have jelly given 

 them, and are fed up at a later period of their larval stage, and have neither 

 space nor time for expansion." 



4 July, 1870. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Llbrarij. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :— 

 ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 1869, Nos. 

 1 — 3 ; presented by the Society. ' Bulletins de I'Academie Royale des 

 Sciences de Belgique,' 2d series, vols, xxvii., xxviii. ; by the Society. ' Ver- 

 handlungen der k. k. zool.-bot. Gesellschaft in Wien,' vol. xix. ; by the Society. 

 ' Mittheilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft,' vol. iii. 

 No. 4; by the Society. 'Exotic Butterflies,' Part 75; by W. Wilson 

 Saunders, Esq. ' Lepidoptera Exotica,' Part 5 ; by E. W. Janson, Esq. 



The following additions by purchase were also announced : — Gemminger 

 and Harold, ' Catalogus Coleopterorum,' vol. vii. Thorell, ' Remarks on 

 Synonyms of European Spiders,' No. 1. 



Election of Members. 

 The Rev. F. A. Walker, M.A., of Elm Hall, Wanstead; and Edward 

 Mackenzie Seaton, Esq., of 28, Belsize Park; were severally ballotted for, and 

 elected Members. 



Exhibitions, dc. 

 Mr. E. G. Meek exhibited various species of Dianthcecia, including 

 D. Barrettii, D. compta and D. conspersa from Ireland, and D. conspersa from 

 the Isle of Man. Also a I'eraarkable Bombyx from near Douglas, Isle of Man ; 



